Corn-fender



Patented Nov. 18, 1888.

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nrrn ra'rns FRANK PONTIUS, OF MIAMISBURG, OHIO.

CCRN FENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 392,824, dated November 13, 1888.

Application filed March 24, 1888. Serial No. 268,422. No model.)

To aZZ whom it may conceive.-

Be it known that I, FRANK Porrrrns, a citi' zen of the United States, residing at Miamisburg, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Im provements in Corn-Fenders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in fenders for wheeled cultivators; and it consists in certain novel features, hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a portion of acul' tivator with my improved fender applied thereto. Fig. 2 is an end View of the fender and its immediate connections removed from the cultivator,and Fig. 3 is a detail view of the means for adjusting the height of the fender.

Referring to the drawings by letter, A designates the beam of the cultivator, of the ordinary or any preferred form. To the beam, at a proper point of the length thereof, I secure a transverse rod, B, which is screw-threaded for the greater portion of its length, as shown. This rod is secured to the beam by means of two lugs or plates, 0 D, which extend above and below the rod B, as shown. The plate 0 is simply a flat straight plate, as shown; but the plate D is'provided on its upper end with a T-head, E, which bears against the upper end of the plate 0, as shown. A nut, F, is mounted on the rod and turns up against the plate D to bind the same against the beam, and thereby clamp the rod thereto. It will be observed that by the construction shown and described these plates are adapted to clamp either a wooden or an iron beam,the longer end being i used when the cultivator has a wooden beam on the rod B, and is provided with two diametrically-opposite pins, K, which engage the openings in the disk H, as shown. A nut, L, is mounted on the rod 13, and is turned up against the disks to secure them against the upper end of the hanger or link M, as shown. The lower end of this link M is connected by a hinge-joint to the upper end of a standard, N, the lower end of which is forked and secured to the fender O. This fender O is constructed of a plate of suitable material bent along its median longitudinal line, as shown, so as to be substantially of an inverted-V shape in cross-section.

In practice the fender is secured to the cultivator as shown and described, and the cultivator is then drawn over the ground in the usual manner. As the cultivator is drawn along, the fender passes over the plants and prevents their being covered up by the dirt thrown to either side by the cultivator-shovels. The clods, stones, wet heavy dirt, 850., will roll from the fender, while the fine dirt will escape over the end of the fender and fall around the roots of the plants. The fender can be adjusted to and from the cultivatorshovels by shifting the position of the clamp ing plates or lugs upon the transverse screwthreaded rod, as will be readily understood. In order to adjust the fender to the height of the plants, the movable disk I is disengaged from the fixed perforated disk, and is so rotated as to cause the pins to contact with the hanger and raise or lower the same, as desired, after which it is again engaged with the fixed disk and the retaining-nut tightened up against the same. The hinge-joint between the link or hanger and the standard is then adjusted so as to hold the fender in a horizontal position.

It will be seen that I have provided a very cheap, simple, and efficient fender, and its advantages are thought to be obvious.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of the beam, the transverse bar adj ustably clamped thereto and having an integral arm adapted to rest upon the beam, the disks H I, the hanger depending from said transverse bar from between the disks, and the fender secured to said hanger, as set forth.

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2. The combination of the transverse bar having screw-threaded ends which secure the beam-clamp and the fender-hanger, the fixed perforated disk H, the adjustable disk T, having pins K, the hanger depending from the transverse bar-between said disks, and the inverted-\/shaped fender secured to the hanger, as set forth.

3. The combination, with the cultivatorbeam and the transverse bar secured thereto, of the hanger mounted on the inner end of said bar, the fender connected to the hanger, and the disks mounted on the transverse bar on opposite sides of the hanger and adj ustahi y connected together, as set forth.

4. The combination of the transverse bar, the hanger mounted on the inner end thereof, the fixed disk on one side of the hanger, having a series of openings, and the movable disk on the opposite side thereof, having pins engaging said openings, as set forth.

.in testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed n'iysignaturein pres enee of two witnesses.

FRANK PONTIUS.

Witnesses:

J. W. MILLS, GEO. A. PONTIUS. 

